Sheriff Arpaio Still Insists Obama’s Birth Certificate Was ‘Forged’

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio listens to a question at news conference at Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Headquarters Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in Phoenix. County officials are holding a closed-door meeting Th... Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio listens to a question at news conference at Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Headquarters Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in Phoenix. County officials are holding a closed-door meeting Thursday to consider action in two lawsuits that accuse Arpaio of abusing his powers. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) MORE LESS
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Despite Donald Trump’s admission that President Obama was born in the United States, Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday pledged to continue pushing birtherism.

“I don’t care where he’s from,” Arpaio said while speaking to the Surprise Tea Party, according to the Arizona Republic. “We are looking at a forged document. Period.”

“I know all the politicians say, ‘Sheriff, don’t talk about it,’” he continued. “But how can I back down when we started it? I’m not going to just forget it.”

Arpaio has long been a vocal member of the birther movement, assigning an investigative team to look into Obama’s birth certificate in 2011 following a request from the Surprise Tea Party. Arpaio has continued to question Obama’s citizenship and offered a reminder late last year that Trump was also a vocal member of the birther movement.

But on Tuesday, Arpaio distanced himself from Trump.

“I had nothing to do with Trump on the birth certificate,” he told Surprise Tea Party members, according to the Arizona Republic. “We did it on our own, because of you guys.”

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  1. What was forged was the paper letting Sheriff Joe out of the institution.

  2. Avatar for anniew anniew says:

    And this is the lead proponent of “Papers please” policing of Hispanics. I imagine even if confronted with “papers” from someone not quite white enough he would smell a fraud.

    He’s sick.

  3. Exactly. I still insist Arpaio is completely deranged.

  4. I’d love to see Sheriff Joe pull over President Obama’s motorcade, based on his usual racial profiling…

  5. Trump: I trust Arapaio. He is a fellow White. I think Obama was born in a foreign land (Hawaii is foreign too).

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